The Cougar Athletes had a light travel journey this weekend with JV tennis in action on Saturday at Zeeland East, and Friday’s action with the football team in Thornapple-Kellogg and the Cross Country team running at Riverside Park.

🎾  The JV Tennis team traveled to Zeeland East for their Quad against Zeeland East, Unity Christian, and Grand Rapids Christian. The team came away with a 3rd place finish in the event, which is an improvement from last year's finish of 4th place. Great work guys!

*Please note, we did not receive any JV Tennis photos from this past weekend's tournament for usage.

🏈  The Varsity football team traveled to Thornapple-Kellogg on Friday evening for the OK-Gold Conference matchup against the Thornapple-Kellogg Trojans. After a slow start to the game and a halftime score of 20-7, the Cougars roared to start the second half. The Cougars opened the second half with a bang, scoring 22 points in just 6 plays in just under 5 minutes of clock time. The Cougars offense was led by Kellen Russell-Dixon who rushed for 3 touchdowns on runs of 2 yards, 27 yards, and breaking free for another 82 yard scamper. KRD also caught a 13 yard touchdown pass from Connor Wolf, who finished with 2 passing TD’s and 1 Rushing TD. The final touchdown of the night for the Cougars was scored by Lucas Thelen. The Final score Catholic Central 49 and Thornapple-Kellogg 14, bringing the Cougars record to 3-1.

The Cougars travel to Cedar Springs on Friday in a key OK-Gold Conference showdown with the Red Hawks. of the year on Friday when they travel to Thornapple-Kellogg to face the Trojans. Kick off is set for 7:00 pm and tickets are $5/each CASH at the gate, but will accept GoFan tickets if purchased. Come on out and support your Cougars!

🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️   The Varsity Cross Country team competed at Riverside Park on Friday in the Ottawa Hills Invite.  The Cougars put on a strong showing with 8 of the athletes setting personal records on the course. On the Varsity Boys side of the event, Aiden Kasprzak (16:58) and Mitchell Dunlap (19:04) each set PR’s while Ian Richthammer (16:38) finished 19th overall and Jeb Hillary (16:52) finished 25th overall out of 155 runners.

On the Girls side of the event, Claire Marosi (19:39) set a PR and finished 17th, while Bri Agon also set a new PR at 22:47. Pacing the Girls was Emily Tomes (18:26) and a 4th place finish out of 129 girls.

For the Junior Varsity Cougars, Mason England (20:16), John Huffman (21:44), Collin Carrier (21:53), and Yavin Fickel (25:02).

The boys team finished 8th out of 18 teams and the girls team finished 8th out of 16 teams. Outstanding work to our Cross Country team!